Rhetoric

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. This anthology, global in scope, presents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897393208Author Brandon RoyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Maven PublishingPublisher Maven PublishingWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart. At a time when writing skills have...

This translation of Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric brings the powerful and original work of a seminal cultural figure to English-language readers for the first time. Ostensibly a commentary on Plato's and Aristotle's relation to the...

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of...

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric...

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597520768Author Drew E. HindererFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452929Author Stacey D'ErasmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm...

Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of...

Many books on writing tell you how to think more creatively, conjure up an idea, and how to express it clearly and elegantly. Many handbooks offer reliable advice on the use of commas, semicolons and so forth. But The New Oxford Guide to Writing does all...

Rapid Writing is a new KS2 resource ideal for use with struggling writers in small groups and for one-to-one support. Written by expert authors Dee Reid and Diana Bentley, the books and unique software give children the careful progression and motivation...

In our post-truth world, tapping into people's emotions has proved far more effective than rational argument - and, as Philip Seargeant argues in this illuminating and entertaining book, the most powerful tool for manipulating emotions is a gripping...

Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395528150Author Robert ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 309g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791401330Author Michael FrischFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each section seeks out resemblances and echoes elsewhere,...

"The frontier of science" is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals and politicians who aligned a mythic national identity with...

'Writing Movies is the ultimate resource. It's like having twenty of the best screenwriting books skilfully rolled into one. American Screenwriters Association. 'You must read this book before you write your first or next screenplay' Stuart Beattie,...

'Writing Movies is the ultimate resource. It's like having twenty of the best screenwriting books skilfully rolled into one. American Screenwriters Association. 'You must read this book before you write your first or next screenplay' Stuart Beattie,...

After everything that's happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common sense, even as their tired policies of budgetary...

Rapid Writing is a new KS2 resource ideal for use with struggling writers in small groups and for one-to-one support. Written by expert authors Dee Reid and Diana Bentley, the books and unique software give children the careful progression and motivation...

Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within...

In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study...

Rapid Writing is a new KS2 resource ideal for use with struggling writers in small groups and for one-to-one support. Written by expert authors Dee Reid and Diana Bentley, the books and unique software give children the careful progression and motivation...

An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empire In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in...

Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way...

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that best documents his dynamic and shifting views on dramatic theory is also that which continues to resonate...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The...

At around the same time that Aristotle was active in ancient Greece, many students in China, including Sun Tzu, who would later write The Art of War, were learning the techniques of persuasion from Guiguzi, "the Master of the Ghost Valley." This pre-Qin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787791Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult

The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569243794Author William ZinsserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Marlowe & CoPublisher Marlowe & CoWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 139mm *...

This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities. It demonstrates that genre matters in a manner not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and includes new work on Genre Theory and...

With it's unique range of rich fiction and non-fiction texts, and comprehensive coverage of the core skills, "Nelson Thornes Framework English Skills in Fiction and Non-Fiction" targets pupils secure at Level 4, or at Level 5 and above. Uniquely, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970526Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 481g

This in-depth, process-oriented guide takes students through the research process step-by-step, following five students from across the disciplines throughout their research projects-from developing interests, investigating sources, and focusing ideas to...

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the...

The editors and authors in this edited collection, available in two volumes, consider the increasing importance of students' and teachers' lived experiences within the development and use of writing assessments. Presenting key work published in The...

It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric's journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influ enced by the intellectual thought of the Muslim Near East. Lahcen Elyazghi Ez zaher contributes to...